通讯软件Telegram 下载量突破10亿
文 / 潘万莉
9/01/2021
（早报讯）通讯软件Telegram加入了全球下载量超过10亿次的应用精英俱乐部。数据公司Sensor Tower表示，这款应用于2013年底推出，在上周五超过了这个里程碑。与该应用的主要竞争对手WhatsApp的情况一样，印度是Telegram最大的市场，在这个世界第二大互联网市场约占其安装量的22%，其次是俄罗斯和印尼，分别占全球10%和8%。
Sensor Tower补充说：“该应用的安装量在2021年加速增长，在2021年上半年达到约2.147亿的安装量，比2020年上半年的1.33亿同比增长高达61%。”
值得注意的是，安装量并不等同于该应用的活跃用户群。例如，截至今年年初，Telegram有大约5亿月度活跃用户。下载量的激增与WhatsApp在向其庞大的用户群转达其隐私政策方面的糟糕处理相吻合，但这也表明Telegram在最近几个季度获得了一些额外的关注。
Telegram在今年早些时候筹集了超过10亿美元的资金，是全球第15个下载量达到或超过10亿次的应用，名单上的其他应用包括WhatsApp、Messenger、Facebook、Instagram、Snapchat、Spotify和Netflix。
Telegram tops 1 billion downloads
By Manish Singh
9/01/2021
Popular instant messaging app Telegram has joined the elite club of apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times globally, according to Sensor Tower.
The Dubai-headquartered app, which was launched in late 2013, surpassed the milestone on Friday, the mobile insight firm told TechCrunch. As is the case with the app’s chief rival, WhatsApp, India is the largest market for Telegram. The world’s second-largest internet market represents approximately 22% of its lifetime installs, Sensor Tower said.
“[India is] followed by Russia and Indonesia, which represent about 10% and 8% of [all installs], respectively. The app’s installs accelerated in 2021, reaching about 214.7 million installs in the first half of 2021, up 61% year-over-year from 133 million in H1 2020,” it added.
It’s worth noting that the number of installs doesn’t equate to the app’s active userbase. Telegram had about 500 million monthly active users as of early this year, for instance. But the surge in downloads, which coincides with WhatsApp’s poor handling of relaying its privacy policies to its massive userbase, nonetheless suggests that Telegram has enjoyed some additional attention in recent quarters.
Telegram, which earlier this year raised over $1 billion, is the fifteenth app worldwide to have been downloaded 1 billion times or more, Sensor Tower told TechCrunch. Other apps on the list include WhatsApp, Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Spotify and Netflix, according to Sensor Tower. (Mobile research firms don’t track the installs of most Google apps that come pre-installed on Android devices.)
Telegram didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
